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Ok, so I'm in Paris, working on a wireless network and my wife's laptop on a moderately important presentation to be given Thursday. (Also a very important presentation, an invited talk (my first!) to be given in October, but that's almost finished.) As it turns out, my wife's laptop does not have PowerPoint installed. Should have checked... Anyway, I download a trial version, I only need it for a few days anyway. The 2007 version sucks. Oh, I'm sure it has all the features I'm used to, plus some extra. But it has this snazzy new interface and look-and-feel, and I just can't find anything. I am pissed. Death to Micro$oft!
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It's the same way with MSWord '07. I'm starting to get used to it though. I've had 3 papers due in the last month so I'm getting my money's worth.
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I still have the '97 office installed on my XP. Not that I need any of it since graduating last year...but it feels good.
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I'm going to say the same thing to you that I said to OSC when he installed Vista. What on earth were you thinking? You installed 2007 in 2007? If it's from Microsoft and it's new, stay far, far away from it. They use customers as an unpaid QA team.
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If you are using a trial of 2007, make sure you save it as a ".doc" and not the default ".docx," otherwise you will have annoying issues to overcome when you try and open it with Office XP or 2003.
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I don't install any major Microsoft product at least until the first major service pack, and wait until the second one if I can.
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quote:Originally posted by Lisa: I'm going to say the same thing to you that I said to OSC when he installed Vista. What on earth were you thinking? You installed 2007 in 2007? If it's from Microsoft and it's new, stay far, far away from it. They use customers as an unpaid QA team.
I said that to OSC too, in a comment to his review; but if you'd read my post, you'd have noticed that it's a trial version I'm using because I'm desperate. As far as I can see, there are no trial versions of Office 97 available, or I'd be using that, thanks kindly.
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I went into Office 2007 expecting to deal with a learning curve. So far I've only gotten to use word to do any real work with, and I love it. So far, 95% of what I've tried to do works, the first time, like I expect it to. The last 5% is bouncing back and forth between something it won't do, does wrong, or something I'm trying to do an old way.
Then again, I've never had Vista crash on me, or not run a program, and the last Vista machine I setup only had one "Are you sure you want to do this" window pop up.
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